TripAdvisor Reviews Songyuan Binguan (Xinfa Road) Changchun

Travel Blogs from Changchun

... had finished John took us into what he calls the 'ethnic area'. Changchun is very much a developing city and the centre is way out from the downtown area, but they are developing this area massively at the moment with lots of high rise apartments going up with shops and cafes in the vicinity. They are designing on more of ...

We woke up to a lovely sunny day. Had a lovely breakfast in the hotel and then walked down the block to Changchun Zoo. We had hoped to see some pandas, but were unlucky. Several of the animals were in very small cages and it was a bit distressing, particularly the poor polar bear.

We walked back down the road by the hotel and went to the shopping area. Ended up having a Burger King for lunch. We did some shopping. I bought a ...

Our favourite little restaurant opposite the Noble Hotel in Changchun. The food in the north of China is very spicy and they make the most fantastic spicy chips! The staff are so friendly and it is always full of Chinese eating their meals. As we walked out the staff were preparing the ...

... to our hotel, the Shichahai Shadow Art hotel, in the heart of the Hutong district of Beijing, which is made up of small lanes and old courtyard dwellings, where families still live and work. Walking down the narrow lanes is quite a challenge, as cars, scooters, carts and bikes come whizzing along, so you have to leap out of the way. The area was built originally to house low ranking officials, craftsmen, artisans, merchants and ...

... have complete free time to wander the city without the pressures of class work or teachers or the politics of the school. A lot of us are planning to go out and buy specific things (I plan on sniffing out chopsticks) and possibly trying out some traditional Chinese medicine. On the menu tonight is sushi as a celebratory dinner. By the way, sushi here is so much cheaper than in America and it's not super sketchy, either.